[GRLUG] Accessing hosed ntfs partition

[moosebriard]

I have successfully used testdisk to recover files from unbootable drives.

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:24 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> Trying to recover files from a laptop for a frend, ..
>
> fdisk -l shows three partitions, /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, & /dev/sda3. sda2
> is the HP recovery partition (can be mounted), sda3 is a tiny boot
> partition, and sda1 is the main filesystem.
>
> Trying to mount it (ntfs-3g) returns "No such file or directory", ..
> ntfsfix reports "failed to startup volume" as does ntfsinfo.
>
> Have never seen a partition that could not be accessed with ntfs toold,
> does anyone have any suggestions for retrieving files?
>
>         Thanks!
>         Lee
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